| DECTET | • dectet n. (Music) A group of ten musicians. • DECTET n. a group of ten (musicians, lines of verse). |
| ENTETE | • ENTETE adj. (French) obstinate (of a male). |
| FUSTET | • fustet n. (Countable) A smoke tree, Cotinus coggygria. • fustet n. (Uncountable) The wood of this tree. • fustet n. (Uncountable) A dye obtained from the wood of this tree. |
| MOTETS | • motets n. Plural of motet. • MOTET n. (French) a kind of unaccompanied part-song or anthem, also MOTETT. |
| MOTETT | • motett n. Archaic form of motet. • MOTETT n. (French) a kind of unaccompanied part-song or anthem, also MOTET. |
| OCTETS | • octets n. Plural of octet. • OCTET n. a composition for eight players, also OCTETT, OCTETTE. |
| OCTETT | • octett n. (Rare) Alternative spelling of octet. • OCTETT n. a composition for eight players, also OCTET, OCTETTE. |
| SEPTET | • septet n. A group of seven, particularly. • SEPTET n. a group of seven, also SEPTETTE, SEPTUOR. |
| SESTET | • sestet n. (Music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor. • sestet n. (Poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each. • SESTET n. a piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments, also SESTETT, SESTETTE, SESTETTO, SEXTET, SEXTETT, SEXTETTE, SEXTUOR. |
| SEXTET | • sextet n. Any group of six people or things. • sextet n. (Music) A composition for six voices or instruments. • sextet n. A group of six singers or instrumentalists. |
| SHTETL | • shtetl n. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe. • SHTETL n. (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village, also SHTETEL. |
| TETANY | • tetany n. (Medicine) A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism. • TETANY n. a morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms. |
| TETCHY | • tetchy adj. Synonym of touchy: easily annoyed or irritated, peevish, testy, irascible; also (figurative) extremely… • TETCHY adj. peevish, fretful, also TEACHIE, TECHY. |
| TETHER | • tether n. A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement. • tether n. (Nautical, sailing) a strong rope or line that connects a sailor’s safety harness to the boat’s jackstay. • tether n. (By extension) the limit of one’s abilities, resources etc. |
| TETRAD | • tetrad n. A group of four things. • tetrad n. (Biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial… • tetrad n. (Biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic… |
| TETRAS | • tetras n. Plural of tetra. • TETRA n. any of various small, often brightly coloured tropical freshwater fishes of the characin family. |
| TETRIS | • Tetris prop.n. A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are… • Tetris prop.n. (Figuratively) An endeavor involving rearranging things of different shape into a physical space. • Tetris n. (Video games, by extension) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris. |
| TETRYL | • tetryl n. (Organic chemistry) The explosive 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl-N-methylnitramine produced by the nitration of dimethylaniline. • TETRYL n. a yellow crystalline explosive. |
| TETTER | • tetter n. (Now rare) Any of various pustular skin conditions. • tetter v. To affect with tetter. • tetter n. (Regional Dixieland vernacular, obsolete) Potato, or sweet potato root. |
| TETTIX | • tettix n. A cicada, especially in Greece. • TETTIX n. (Greek) the cicada. |